The Federal Government social investment scheme, N-Power has commenced its application portal for registration of the June 2020 Batch C intakes but the beneficiaries tenure may differ from the Batch A and Batch B.

The N-Power Programme was inaugurated by the President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016 under the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) with the mandate of lifting citizens out of poverty through capacity building, investment, and direct support.

The programme has enrolled 500,000 beneficiaries so far with 200,000 from Batch A which started in September 2016 and 300,000 from Batch B which kicked off in August 2018.

The beneficiaries were supposed to spend not less than 24 months on the programme but Batch A beneficiaries have spent over 40 months.

Newsflash247 gathered that the new Batch C tenure will spend 12 months for N-Teach and N-Health respectively and made for only University graduate. READ THE TENURE OF EACH CATEGORY HERE

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The Special Adviser to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has threatened to sue the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ado Ekiti Local Government chapter over alleged libel and defamation of character.

The chapter accused Ojudu of bribing the APC chairman of his ward with N500,000 in a letter of invitation dated June 25, 2020 titled “your political anti-party activities and the needs to defend yourself”.

The letter further accused him of “propaganda in the media and blackmail against the party and state chairman.”

The executives further alleged the presidential aide thwarted efforts by ward 8 Ado Ekiti to invite him to defend alleged anti-party activities.

They then asked him to appear on July 2 by 12noon to defend himself for also calling for dissolution of party executives at all levels.

Ojudu has been in a running battle with Governor Kayode Fayemi since he criticised the former Minister of Steel and Mines for non-performance in June. READ FULL STORY HERE
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The former Lagos State governor and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has weighed in on the recent crisis that rocked the party, exposing several issues that led to the problem.

Tinubu disclosed that problems had been lingering in the party for months, especially among its leadership.

He criticized the now-dissolved national working committee, NWC of the party adding that order, party discipline and mutual respect had disappeared.

In a statement released on Saturday by Tinubu’s media aide, Tunde Rahman, saying, the party has experienced growing disagreement within the leadership of the party.

He said "I wish to begin my remarks by commending members of the National Working Committee. Under their collective stewardship, the party earned great and important victories, not least the vital second mandate handed to President Buhari.

President Buhari’s victory and the overall electoral success of APC speak highly of them. Our task as a party is to build upon the progress thus made so that both nation and party may advance to their better future." READ MORE HERE
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The elected Governors under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday, June 27, has rubbished claims made by the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, that 10 of its members were set to decamp to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Bello on Friday, claimed that APC was not on the verge of collapse and Governors elected on other platforms were looking to join the party.
But the PDP Governors under the leadership of Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has described the claims as unfounded.

In a statement on Saturday and signed by its Director-General, C.I.D. Maduabum, the forum said:

“It is obvious that this is a diversionary tactic to shore up the sagging morale of APC members who are mourning the loss of yet another state Governor, Godwin Obaseki of Edo State to the PDP, as a result of the chaos and anarchy currently existing in the APC, following the mismanagement
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The Federal Government social investment scheme, N-Power has opened its application portal for registration of the June 2020 Batch C intakes.

This is according to series of tweets on the N-Power handle which noted that the portal for intending beneficiaries, opened on 26th June 2020.

“Dear Intending N-Power 2020 Applicants, here is how to prepare for the N-Power application,” the N-Power scheme tweeted.

“Remember 1. Portal opens 11.45 pm, June 26th, 2020. 2. Application is FREE. Do NOT pay anyone to apply on the N-Power portal. 3. Get a printout or accurate details of your BVN.”

“We understand some people have attempted registration. Please NOTE that your registration is null and void. It doesn’t count till the portal opens at 11.45pm tonight.

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N-Power, Federal Government youths’ empowerment programme, on Thursday, gave a fresh update to N-Power 2020 applicants [/b]on how they will prepare for registration.

N-Power made this known in a tweet via its official Twitter page.

It said: “Dear Intending N-Power 2020 Applicants,

“Here is how to prepare for the N-Power application.

“Remember;

“1. Portal opens 11.45pm, June 26, 2020.
“2. Application is FREE. Do NOT pay anyone to apply on the N-Power portal.
“3. Get a printout or accurate details of your BVN.”
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The National body of the All Progressives Congress, APC led by Adams Oshiomhole [/b]has plotted to disqualify Edo State Governor, Godwin Obseki, ahead of June 22, 2020, APC governorship primary in the state has been activated.

The party has fixed the screening of the six aspirants that have purchased filled and submitted nomination and expression of interest forms for Wednesday and Thursday.

The six aspirants are Gov. Obaseki, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Rt. Hon. Dr Pius Odubu, Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi, Hon. Osaro Obazee and Hon. Matthew Aigbuhuenze Iduoriyekemwen. [b]READ FULL STORY HERE

The former old Ondo State governor, Evangelist Bamidele Ishola Olumilua, is dead after a brief illness.

He was 80 years.

Olumilua is an indigene of Ikere Ekiti, the headquarter of the Ikere Local Government Area of the Ekiti State.

Olumilua, who was the elected Governor of Ondo State from January 1992 to November 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic.

Also, his eldest son, Muyiwa Olumilua who is currently the Ekiti State Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation confirmed the death of his father.

He was elected on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, SDP. READ FULL STORY AND BIOGRAPHY

The President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday afternoon, June 1, has announced the relaxation of the restriction placed on places of worship as part of measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19.

According to the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, who announced this during the daily briefing of the panel on Monday.

Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to Government of the Federation, said the ban on inter-state travel is still in place.

He said, “There is a ban on gatherings of more than 20 people outside of a workplace. READ FULL STORY HERE

The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, on Monday afternoon, June 1, has visited the President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to the Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, who announced this via his Twitter handle.

He said, “President Muhammadu Buhari meets with Governor of Edo State, His Excellency, Godwin Obaseki this afternoon, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.”

Also, On Monday afternoon, Governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have stormed the party’s National Secretariat to hold talks with the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee to broker truce between Oshiomhole and his political godson and Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki READ FULL STORY HERE

On Monday afternoon, Governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have stormed the party’s National Secretariat to hold talks with the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee to broker truce between Oshiomhole and his political godson and Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki.

Governors who already at the National Executive Committee meeting hall are governors of Kebbi, Atiku Bagudu; Ondo, Rotimi Akeredolu; Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Plateau, Simon Lalong; Kano, Umar Ganduje; Kwara, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq and Gombe, Muhammed Inuwa.

Newsflash247 had earlier reported that the Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State had led Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and six other governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to a meeting with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu over Obaseki second term ambition on Sunday, May 31 READ FULL STORY HERE

COVID-19: Fayemi reviews Ekiti directives, orders workers to resume work; ban Religion activities

Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Sunday, June 31, has reviewed the State directives on the COVID-19, otherwise known as Coronavirus, saying the public officers from Grade Level 8 and above are to resume for duty from June 1, 2020.

Fayemi, who broadcast on Sunday evening in Ado-Ekiti, the State capital, said as from June 1, 2020, Ekiti people will be able to go about their daily activities from Monday to Friday, 6 am to 8 pm in the evening.

The governor said the dusk to dawn curfew will daily resume at 8 pm till 5: 59 am of the following morning.

He also existing restrictions on human and vehicular movement would continue to be observed in accordance with existing regulations contained in the Ekiti State Coronavirus Disease (Prevention of Infection), Regulations 2020.

The governor further explained that the Ekiti boundaries will remain on complete lockdown daily pending further review at national level. READ THE FULL REVIEWS DIRECTIVES

Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Saturday, May 30, has responded to the claims that his government has sold off the Ekiti State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja, saying, the allegation as spurious, alleged that former governor, Ayodele Fayose leased his personal apartment in Abuja to the state and collected N120 million for a period of four years.

Fayemi, also alleged that Fayose illegally sold the official land acquired by the state’s first civilian governor, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo for the building of the state lodge in Abuja.

He made these allegations in a statement his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications, Mr. Segun Dipe issued on Saturday, denying claims that Fayemi had sold the state lodge in the FCT.

The PDP had in a statement by its Publicity Secretary; Mr. Diran Odeyemi accused Fayemi of selling the building to an unnamed investor, which he described as financial recklessness and misgovernance READ FULL STORY HERE

The organisers of the Big Brother Naija, MultiChoice Nigeria, on Wednesday, May 20, has announced the month of the fifth season of the reality show.

The organisers revealed this in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday, saying, the fifth season of the show will premiere in July 2020.

For its fifth season, the BBNaija show will run an online audition process from May 20 till May 30.

Potential contestants are expected to record a two-minute video of themselves stating why they should be picked to be a housemate in season 5 of Big Brother Naija.READ FULL STORY HERE

A former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has hired 12 lawyers, including six Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), to secure his release from prison.

Orji is serving a 12-year jail term at the Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja for looting N7.65billion belonging to the Abia State Government.

He has filed a motion on notice against the Federal Government at the Federal High Court in Lagos, seeking to set aside his trial and conviction of last December 5.READ FULL STORY HERE

The National body of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is in confusion over which mode of primaries to adopt for the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had last week Friday, May 15, had announced that all campaigns, party primaries, accreditation of journalists ahead of the September 19 and October 10 governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States will done online to reflect the realities accompanying the Coronavirus pandemic.

Festus Okoye, Head of Information and Voter Education at the commission, said that even though the dates of the election cannot be changed because of its constitutional provision, measures will be taken by INEC to ensure that all guidelines set by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control is adhered to during the election period.

He said, “We have two elections coming up this year that is the one in Edo slated for September 19, 2020 and the one in Ondo which has been fixed for October 10, 2020.

Meanwhile, the governing All Progressives Congress is in a dilemma over which mode of primaries to adopt for READ FULL STORY HERE

The Ekiti State government on Friday, May 15, has recorded another four new cases of the COVID-19, otherwise known as Coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 19 and one death.

The state Commissioner of Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, made the disclosed on Friday when the members of the COVID 19 task force gave an update on the spread of the scourge in the State.

She revealed that the state has recorded four new cases, which involved three males and one female, who sneaked into the state from Lagos, Katsina, and Oyo states during the lockdown.READ FULL STORY HERE

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday, May 14, described the President Buhari Government’s school feeding programme as “a big scam.

PDP said the school feeding programme even when schools are shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic was a scheme by the “corrupt All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders and some officials in the Buhari Presidency to siphon a targeted N13.5 billion public funds to finance their wasteful lifestyle.”

The party described the use of innocent school children as a cover to steal and funnel not less than N679 million daily to private purses as “sacrilegious, wicked and completely unpardonable.”

PDP said this in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.READ FULL STORY HERE

The Presidency has released the actions and measures being taken by President Muhammadu Buhari to reduce the suffering of Nigerians after the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an article released on Thursday by Femi Adesina, the President’s Spokesman noted that Buhari is focusing on the future.

“There is global anxiety on what the future holds for humanity post-COVID-19, particularly in respect of the economy, healthcare, job security, and general wellbeing,” he said.

He noted that Nigerians are not immune from the disquietude since they belong to the global community. READ FULL STORY HERE

In the early hours of Wednesday, May 13, the Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed a former Under Secretary of the United Nations, UN, Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, as his new Chief of Staff, CoS.

The appointment of Gambari was widely circulated on Tuesday but was however made official on Wednesday.

Gambari replaced Abba Kyari, who died of Coronavirus related ailment in April, 2020.

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In the early hours of Tuesday, tears flow freely when two staff of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, was electrocuted while working on defective borehole on campus.

Eyewitnesses told journalists in Ado Ekiti the victims were staff of the Department of Works and were said to have died while carrying out statutory function.

One of the deceased, whose identities have not been made known, was a native of Ado Ekiti while the other victim hailed from Kogi State.

The source narrated the victims while working on the borehole had made attempts to remove the galvanised pipe for READ FULL STORY HERE

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, May 12, has appointed Professor Agboola Ibrahim Gambari as the new chief of staff to President .

Prof. Gambari, a Nigerian scholar, diplomat and an indigene of Kwara State was appointed to replace the late Abba Kyari on Tuesday, May 12.

Mallam Abba Kyari was the Chief of Staff to President Buhari Before his demise which was announced READ FULL STORY HERE

The Sokoto State government on Sunday night, May 10, has announced the death of the Commissioner of land and housing, Surajo Gatawa.

A government source disclosed this on Sunday night but did not go into details.

Source said that the funeral prayers had been scheduled for 7pm at his residence at Sama Road, opposite READ FULL STORY HERE

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, on Sunday, May 10, has demolished two hotels and bars over allegedly violating the COVID-19, otherwise known as Coronavirus lockdown directives

Two hotels pulled down were Prodest Hotel, Eleme local government and Etemeteh Hotel, Onne local government area of the state.

Nyesom Wike, the governor, had imposed a lockdown and directed all hotels in the state to suspend services immediately as parts of measures to check the spread of COVID-19.READ THE FULL STORY AND THE PHOTOS

Borno State Deputy Governor and coordinator of the state’s COVID-19 team, clashed with the family of Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff over the initially government refusal to release the body of the late mother of the army’s chief.

Kakah Hajja, Buratai’s mother, who died on Tuesday, was said to have suffered complications of COVID-19.

Sources at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) said Hajja was brought into the intensive care unit of the hospital and tested positive for the disease before she died. READ FULL STORY HERE

In the early hours of Thursday, a former Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Dahiru Saleh, who annulled the June 12, 1993 Presidential election in Nigeria, has reportedly died of Coronavirus complications.

He was said to have died in Azare, Bauchi State, to suspected Coronavirus complications.

A family source said that the late Saleh died on Thursday in Bauchi and would be buried in Azare today. READ FULL STORY HERE

The former House of Representatives member and two prominent persons have died in Yobe State of suspected Coronavirus symptoms within the last 24 hours.

They are former House of Reps member representing Nguru/Machina/Karasuwa/Yusufari Federal Constituency, Alhaji Baba Bukar Machina, Muazu Buraji, Director of Yobe State Ministry of Health, and Alhaji Bana Kura, a prominent civil servant in Geidam.

Machina died at an isolation facility in Damaturu, the state capital, and is set to be buried on Thursday.

Newsflash247 had previously reported that no less that 155 people had died over the span of six days after showing symptoms of Coronavirus.

When contacted by our correspondent over the issue, Mamman Mohammed, Director of Press and Media READ FULL STORY HERE

Engr. Muazu Magaji, the sacked Kano State Commissioner of Works and Infrastructural Development who celebrated the late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, has tested positive for the COVID-19, otherwise known as Coronavirus.

Engr. Magaji who said he has been put in one of the state’s facilities made the announcement on Thursday through his Facebook page.

He said, “This morning my NCDC test came out, I have been confirmed positive for COVID-19.

“And have been moved to one of the state’s facilities”. READ FULL STORY HERE

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, May 7, has announced that a 10-year-old boy fled to the northern part of Nigeria after testing positive in Oyo.

Makinde, who made the disclosure via his Twitter handle in the early hours of Thursday, confirmed eight new COVID-19 positive cases in the state, bringing the total number of infections to 52.

He said, “We also have a further update on the two absconded cases reported earlier today. They absconded before being admitted to any of our isolation centres.READ FULL STORY HERE

The Former Schalke player and Congolese footballer, Hiannick Kamba who was reported dead in a car crash back in 2016 has been found alive and well in Germany.

The 33-year-old was declared dead following a car crash in DR Congo four years ago and now his ex-wife is under investigation after she had claimed insurance.

Kamba reportedly died on January 9, 2016, but German outlet Bild has claimed that the star is alive as he was reportedly seen in the city of Ruhr, Germany, this week where he works as a chemical technician at an energy supplier, Daily Mail reports. READ FULL STORY HERE